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President Obama on Campaign Hacks: Very Clear Relationships Between Team Trump and Russia
The POTUS opened up to Daily Show host Trevor Noah about reports that Russia was behind hacking with the intent to sway the election for Donald Trump.
Well, its not a rush. Keep in mind, when the DNC got hacked, we immediately assigned our intelligence communityour law enforcementto investigate what had happened. And we determinedand announcedin October that it was the consensus of all the intelligence agencies in law enforcement that organizations affiliated with Russian intelligence were responsible for the hacking of the DNC materials that were being leaked. That was a month before the election. This was not a secret, the president said.
I will say this, though, Trevor: None of this should be a big surprise, he continued. This was reported on before the election. I dont think there was any doubt among anybody in the media or among members of Congress as to who was being advantaged or disadvantaged by the political gossip that was being put out in drip-drip-drip fashion leading up to the election.
Then POTUS took things one step further, drawing a line between President-elect Donald Trumps team and the Russians:
This was not a secret running up to the election! exclaimed Obama. The president-elect (Trump) in some of his political events specifically said to the Russians, Hack Hillarys emails so that we can finally find out whats going on, and confirm our conspiracy theories. You had what was very clear relationships between members of the president-elects campaign team and Russians, and a professed shared view on a bunch of issues.
MORE:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/12/president-obama-on-election-hacking-very-clear-relationships-between-team-trump-and-russia.html?via=twitter_page
The Putin-Trump bromance
animated:
https://twitter.com/PostOpinions/status/808476536571592704
Rex Tillerson's Exxon-Mobil has been under formal investigation by the SEC since August
Most of the commentary over Donald Trumps presumed secretary-of-state nominee Rex Tillerson concerns the Exxon Mobil CEOs closeness to Russia, and Senate Republican discomfort with that relationship. But Trump and Tillerson share something else that hasnt gotten as much attentiona penchant to rip off their business partners.
In ExxonMobils case, Im talking about shareholders. Tillersons company has been under formal investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission since August for failing to accurately value its proven oil reserves.Those reserves are critical to investors for assessing the future viability of the company. Without the certainty that the company can keep crude oil flowing decades into the future, ExxonMobil stock would plummet. Rewriting the disclosures to investors with lower valuations would cost the company billions of dollars. And actually the entire oil and gas industry would be affected by a new standard rather than the current ad hoc system.
The investigation is a kind of companion piece to the Exxon Knew campaign, which charges that the worlds largest publicly traded oil company was aware of the catastrophic effects of climate change nearly 40 years ago, but lied to shareholders about these risks to its business model. Attorneys general in over a dozen states have opened investigations into these matters.
But the SEC probe goes further. The agency requested documents from PricewaterhouseCoopers, ExxonMobils auditor, looking at how the company accounts for future costs from global climate regulations. If it becomes more costly to initiate drilling because of the so-called price of carbon, or regulations that mandate reductions to greenhouse gas emissions, Exxon might have to shelve the projects, taking a hit to future profitability. Even if the United States dumps the Paris climate accord (something a Secretary of State Tillerson may be in position to influence), Exxon does business worldwide, including with countries who would be likely to stay in the pact and work to cut emissions. Public companies must account in their financial disclosures for knowable risks to investors, and climate regulations would certainly fit the bill for an oil giant.
The SEC also wants to know why ExxonMobil does not write down the value of its reserves when oil prices drop. The crash began two years ago; a barrel of oil fetched $115 in June 2014, but under $28 by February. Even with the recent announcement of OPEC production cuts, the price has barely crested $50. But ExxonMobil never factored that loss into its calculations of future reserves; by contrast, Chevron has written down $50 billion. Exxon said in October it could de-book about 20 percent of its reserves if prices remain low, but it hasnt done it yet.
the rest:
https://www.thenation.com/article/potential-secretary-of-state-nominee-rex-tillerson-has-an-sec-problem/
'Person' of the year
By any definition of the word, this may be Russia's greatest coup since Sputnik.
The result of Putins intervention in the American election cannot be downplayed. If Hillary Clinton had garnered just 107,000 more votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, this would have given her the Electoral College and the White House. According to pollster Nate Silver, the Russian intervention contributed to eroding up to three per cent of the swing-state vote from Clinton. That small margin was all it took to decide the election.
By any definition of the word, this may be Russias greatest coup since Sputnik. It was a spectacular successit toppled one political candidate in order to place Moscows man in the White Houseand no matter what happens next, it has dealt a damaging blow to America and its political institutions.
And there can be no doubt that Trump is Moscows man. Throughout the campaign, his pro-Russian policies were his only inflexibly consistent proposals. After winning the Republican nomination, his team asked for only one change to the entire party platformremoving support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, contradicting almost the whole Republican foreign policy establishment.
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How did we get here? Habituation. Every paragraph in this column would have been laughably unbelievable 18 months ago. Putin interfering in the U.S. election? President Trump? A pro-Russian administration? But when this slowly unfolded, day by day, and inch by inch, we gradually became de-sensitized to the change that Trump has brought to America: campaigning on lies, turning Americas foreign policy on its head, and making the United States a subordinate ally to Russia.
http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/russias-american-coup/
People in charge of GOP now aren't traditional Republicans-They took over GOP in a coup in 80s & 90s
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https://twitter.com/arapaho415/status/808174072647430146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Didn't you ask Russia to hack Hillary on live TV?
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
?@realDonaldTrump
Unless you catch "hackers" in the act, it is very hard to determine who was doing the hacking.
Why wasn't this brought up before election?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/808300706914594816
Trump Told Russia To Blame for Hacks Long Before Debate
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-was-told-russia-was-blame-hacks-long-debate-n663686
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-putin-no-relationship-226282
"Plunder Monkeys"
STEPHEN KING:
Trump's proposed cabinet is the worst in American history: a motley crew of plunder-monkeys.
https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/807725345713557504
Good news. Bipartisan outrage.
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/808135408144044032
This may be America's finest hour, as we act together with unshakable resolve to deal with enemies
A Guidestar:
This may be America's finest hour, as we act together with unshakable resolve to deal with enemies foreign and domestic.
Worth reading this whole thread:
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https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/808045818024497157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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